From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26915 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2007 16:02:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 26825 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Aug 2007 16:02:39 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com (HELO rgminet01.oracle.com) (148.87.113.118) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:02:36 +0000 Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l7MG2Wwj000602; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:02:32 -0600 Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l7MEKBFV017495; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:02:31 -0600 Received: from c-76-19-29-178.hsd1.ma.comcast.net by rcsmt252.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3146757951187798472; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:01:12 -0600 Message-ID: <46CC5DF2.6060909@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:02:00 -0000 From: Elena Zannoni Organization: Oracle USA Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Wielaard CC: frysk@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Disassembly source buffer and libopcodes References: <1187785589.3759.10.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> <46CC476F.7000106@oracle.com> <1187794289.3759.20.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> In-Reply-To: <1187794289.3759.20.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact frysk-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: frysk-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q3/txt/msg00323.txt.bz2 Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Elena, > > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 10:25 -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote: > >>> Since Fedora did a license audit and found we were linking in libopcodes >>> from binutils which is under GPL, but we distribute Frysk under GPL + >>> Exception, automatic libopcode usage has been disabled (you need to >>> configure --with-libopcodes to get it). >>> >> Thanks for discussing this on the mailing list, can you explain a bit >> more about it? >> I wasn't aware of the audit, is this a RH thing? or a fedora thing? Does >> it impact frysk in other ways? >> > > It is a Fedora thing. They are cleaning up the package license tags: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LicenseTag > This means all packages are audited now. The main Frysk license is GPL + > Exception so we can link with non-gpl compatible code like eclipse. One > of the maintainers noticed that we were using binutils (libopcodes) > which is GPL-only though, so cannot be used in a larger work with EPL > code. > > >> I assume this is reason for the change Andrew made on >> August 16? >> http://sourceware.org/ml/frysk-cvs/2007-q3/msg00648.html >> >> Is there any public discussion of the audit? >> > > fedora-devel and fedora-maintainers has lots, but those are super busy > lists: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/ > > This particular issue came up here first I believe: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-August/msg00264.html > > Cheers, > > Mark > > Thanks, I see Andrew replied to that thread, so what is the impact on frysk? Do we switch to GPLv3 or just ignore since we have our copy of libopcodes (and keep that at GPLv2?)